Parmenides

Auteur
Alain Badiou is one of the most important philosophers of our time. He is emeritus professor of philosophy at the École normale supérieure in Paris. His seminars published by Columbia University Press include Images of the Present Time (2023) and The One: Descartes, Plato, Kant (2023).

Susan Spitzer is a frequent translator of Badiou's works.

Kenneth Reinhard is research professor of comparative literature and English at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Texte du rabat

Alain Badiou's 1985 seminar on Parmenides initiated his ongoing dialogue with the pre-Socratic philosopher and set out some of the foundational ideas of his own major philosophical works, including Being and Event.